She settled down, and her mind turned quickly: Could this be the Chu family who were burned to death by the fire, and they were casually placed here because they couldn't find their family members to collect their bodies. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But after careful scrutiny, she found that this conjecture was untenable.

When she was on duty in the palace, she had inquired about the details of the fire, and went to the history museum to quietly check the relevant information: she found that because the fire occurred in the imperial capital Chang'an and there were not a few people who burned to death, the burned down was still the mansion given by Taizu to the Chu family, so after the emperor learned of the fire, he first mobilized the nearby defenders in the city to fight the fire, and then sent people to the scene to verify the dead and injured people, including names, ages, and places of origin, all of which were copied by a special person and sent to the emperor for preview. The burial and bereavement expenses are then paid in batches according to different circumstances. In the end, he also strictly ordered the prime minister to find out the cause of the fire, and if someone deliberately set the fire, he would not be forgiven. Under such strict layers of checks, it is really impossible to miss and lie about the situation in a foolish way.

Even if he is buried here without a name or surname, why is there not even a tombstone?

It is not enough to answer all the questions with one ulna. She had to dig deeper, and perhaps find the answer from the whole corpse.

Soon a complete skull was unearthed, and the uneasiness in her heart spread like a plague. Despite her aching shoulders, she continued to struggle to the ground, sweat converging down the curve of her face to her chin, staggering into the mud, smashing out puddles the size of her thumb.

Bones were dug out by her one after another, and the rediscovery of the last metacarpal bone completely overturned her first conjecture.

Chu Yunxi wiped his sweaty forehead with his sleeve, patiently sorted out the human bones, placed them on the silk cloth he was sitting on, and after a cursory examination, he roughly came to the following conclusions:

First: it's a complete human skeleton.

In other words, the bones of these white flowers belong to the same person, not the stumps of multiple people. This is judged by the seams and symmetry of the bones. Since she had little experience in autopsies, all she could rely on was common sense.

Second: The owner of this skeleton is supposed to be a man.

First of all, the bones of the deceased were relatively thick, with obvious protrusions, and the drum surface was rough, and the bones were heavier. Judging by the height and width of the deceased's bones, he should have been a man.

Secondly, the skull of the deceased, from the top of the head to the back of the head, has a total of eight pieces, which is a symbol of masculinity. If she remembers correctly, the book says: there are only six tablets for women. （1）

Thirdly, this man was not burned to death by the fire ten years ago, and he could have died before that!

The skeleton was inseparable from the pear tree, as if the pear tree had come out of the dead man, especially in the palm of her left hand, the tiny roots had even penetrated into the knuckles of the fingers, and it took her a long time to clean the roots.

Chu Yunxi carefully recalled all the memories of this pear tree, she had practiced light exercises on the pear tree, and this tree symbolized her father's oath to her mother. As a result, the image of the pear tree from germination to towering tree quickly streaked through her brain like a shooting star. She vividly remembers that it all happened before the fire.

The pear trees were already planted here before the fire. If the person is buried under the tree after the fire, then the pear tree must be uprooted. Who will bury the body and replant the tree again. Moreover, the roots of the pear tree are so inseparable from the corpse, and there is no trace of being dug up in the middle.

So follow the clues. She could have guessed that one day before the fire, someone had buried the body at the door of the Pear Blossom Island, and the corpse happened to have the seeds of the pear tree on it, or that the person happened to have several seeds of the pear tree in his hand. The seed absorbs nutrients from the dead man's body and the soil underground, and germinates and grows until it flourishes.

Fourth: This person probably died from a sharp weapon.

After all these years of decay, it is inevitable that there will be some damage on the bones. However, there are two strange notches in the bones, which seem to have been made by sharp weapons. One is on the left rib, the gap is on the left side of the body, and the wound is diagonally downward, about the height of the heart. It is very large and triangular in shape, one is on the right rib cage near the thoracic vertebra in the back, the gap is very small, oblique upward, it is easy to ignore with the naked eye, Chu Yunxi felt it with his hands.

She closed her eyes and simulated in the darkness what it would be like when the man was killed, and since the wound was deep and shallow, the fatal wound was naturally a serious injury. If the murderer is killed with one knife, why should he make up for another non-fatal wound, so the most likely situation should be that the murderer did not kill the deceased with the first knife, so there is a second wound.

Therefore, the murder process she recounted was as follows: the murderer first attacked the deceased from behind with something shaped like an awl, and the wound was on the right side and not deep. Seeing that the deceased was not dead, the murderer pulled out the murder weapon and wanted to stab him again. The deceased, after being injured, wanted to see who the murderer was, he turned to the left, and when he turned halfway, he happened to face the murderer on the left side of his body, and the murderer stabbed the deceased's left rib into the heart, and the deceased fell to the ground and died on the spot.

Of course, speculation is just speculation, and speculation is not the same as facts. In order to obtain accurate and reliable conclusions, an autopsy must be performed. After all, there was only one white bone left in this corpse, and it is unknown whether there were other wounds on his body. Perhaps these wounds were made after the death of the deceased, and it is not known that the murderer deliberately used them to cover people's eyes. He was not necessarily killed by a sharp weapon, and it would be arbitrary to conclude that he could have died of poisoning, drowning, or burning. All she knew was that the man had died in the fire that had forced her to leave her home ten years earlier.

Compared to how exactly this person died, the following questions are even more problematic:

1. Who is the deceased (identity of the deceased)?

2. Who is the murderer (the identity of the murderer)?

3. The motive for the killing?

Fourth, the most important point, and the most strange point that Chu Yunxi feels: Is the deceased from the mansion or from outside the mansion?

The masters of the house are all alive, and all the slaves have also been registered, which is well documented, and if there is one person missing for no reason, will no one know? Therefore, the possibility that the deceased was from the government can be ruled out.

If he is someone outside, it is even more unreasonable, there will be someone who kills someone outside, and then evades the layers of guards of the Chu Mansion, runs through the wall and runs to the gate of the pear courtyard to bury the body here unconsciously, hiding from the sky and the sea, and hiding people's eyes and ears for more than ten years? Even if the killer is a person who is very familiar with the terrain of the prefecture, I am afraid it will be very difficult.

Either assumption seemed to her to be difficult to justify, and besides, the best place to bury the body should be a mass grave outside the city, not a high-ranking official's mansion like the Chu Mansion. Unless the murderer wants to dig his own grave, but if that's the case, why not just throw the body at the door of the Chu mansion.

Chu Yunxi's head hurt, she looked up at the sun, and was surprised to find that the sun had already set to the west, and then her stomach rumbled, reminding her that she had been here for half a day.

When she was about to leave, a new question arose, what to do with the bones? Is it right here? Chu Mansion has hidden too many secrets that no one knows, and since fate has appointed her to be the secret reveal, she must bravely take on the mission of this role.

This corpse may be a lonely soul with injustice, or maybe he is also a tragedy caused by the prime minister, and it is her responsibility to let him see the light of day again. She decided to take the bones home and study them, but the sun was shining and it was too ostentatious to walk down the street with a human skeleton. She might as well bury it shallowly and wait until the evening to pick it up.

She made a mark at the burial place, patted the dirt on her body and stood up, and lifted her feet to leave this Chu Clan's deserted mansion full of sins and secrets. On the way home, her heart fluctuated, so much so that she almost bumped into Biyin, who was sitting at the gate of the yard stealing peanuts.

Biyin touched her chest and shouted exaggeratedly, "I'm scared to death." ”

Lu Yan, who was kicking her face in the kitchen, heard the noise, didn't bother to wash her hands, and ran out with her hands dipped in flour and water. So the scene of the two pinching each other was staged with gongs and drums, which amused Chu Yunxi on the side.

The two of them died down. Chu Yunxi sat on the small bench, picked up the peanuts on the bench, peeled one and threw it in his mouth, and said with a smile: "Let's make such a loud noise, Qinghua won't come out to take a look." It can be seen that she is still calm. ”

The bench was not big, but Biyin insisted on squeezing in with her, and she kindly gave up half of the place and stuffed a few peanuts into her mouth. Biyin chewed peanuts and panted at Lu Yan, who was on the opposite side, and spitted and said, "Where is this, Qing Ulva went to buy goldfish, and she hasn't returned yet." ”

Biyin's saliva splashed on Lu Yan's apron, she saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly held her head with both hands to make a protective shape, but she didn't expect Lu Yan's pink fist to be smashed, but was directly pounced on the ground by a green body.

Chu Yunxi and Lu Yan helped Biyin and Qing Chun, who fell into a ball, and the cunning Lu Yan took the opportunity to rub the flour on Biyin, and the two started a new round of chasing and fighting.

Biyin sat on the bench, her face flushed, her eyes fluttering, and her expression frightened, as if she had been greatly frightened. Her unrelenting appearance made Chu Yunxi very worried.

Chu Yunxi shook her shoulders and asked in a low voice with concern, "Qingxu, what's wrong with you?" ”

Qing Chun came to her senses, bowed her head embarrassedly and said, "It's nothing, I fought with a few gangsters I met on the road, and I lost the goldfish I bought." Fortunately, they have been taken down by the official mission, and I was afraid of many things, so I ran away in a panic and tripped over the threshold in a panic. ”

She raised her head, and her face turned even redder: "I bumped Biyin, I'm really sorry." ”

Chu Yunxi chuckled and said, "It's okay, Biyin has thick skin, and she falls." It's you. She turned pale and said, "But there are injuries, go into the house, and I'll check it for you." ”

After dinner, Chu Yunxi was exhausted, and he wanted to take a nap on the bed with his clothes closed, but as soon as he lay down, he fell asleep in a daze until midnight.

A wren fluttered past the window, in harmony with the most terrifying rhythm of her dreams, and she rolled over and sat up. There was not much left of the nightmare in my head, but the overwhelming fear was hard to wear. She was so frightened that she could no longer muster up the courage to put on her clothes and run alone to the wasteland to fetch the bones. (To be continued.) )